Archive for May, 2015

This is the first in a series of posts about several phylogeny initiatives newly-funded by NSF focused on both technical and community aspects of phylogeny. Plenty of potential for mutually beneficial work with OpenTree, and we are excited to help.

First up… FuturePhy!

FuturePhy is an NSF-sponsored, three-year program of conferences, workshops and hackathons on the Tree of Life. The project aims to promote novel, integrative data analyses and visualization, interdisciplinary syntheses of phylogenetic sciences, and cross-cutting uses of phylogenetics to develop and address new research questions and applications.

The first phase of this mission is critical: to bring together a broad community of people from diverse backgrounds who are active in phylogenetics research, who use the tree of life in research or education, who will benefit in applied or practical ways from a comprehensive tree of life, or who come from a background that offers new perspectives on defining, addressing or transcending key challenges in phylogenetics.

Help accelerate progress in all aspects of phylogenetics research by joining FuturePhy today. Diverse opportunities will be available to attend FuturePhy sessions in person or virtually, and to link FuturePhy to existing projects and initiatives.

We invite you to participate in the project in several ways:
Register on futurephy.org. Scientists from all aspects of the phylogenetic sciences, educators, members of the tree-using community, and others interested in phylogenetics are welcome.

Take the community survey and let FuturePhy what workshop and hackathon topics they should fund.

Contribute to the discussion forum on futurephy.org. This is the best way to log your interest and contribute ideas.